POB Middle School to Dedicate Gazebo in Memory of Teacher

Plainview Old Bethpage Middle School will unveil  a new reading area donated in memory a beloved teacher who lost a battle to cancer in 2011.

The school will hold a ceremony Friday to dedicate the "POBMS Gazebo Reading Area" which was donated to the school by the Sandee Goldstein Memorial Fund, school officials wrote in a letter to parents.

Goldstein was a fifth grade teacher who battled the disease for several years she retired a few months before a death in July, 2011 at age 62.

Her death inspired one of her former students to donate his hair last year  to a company that makes wigs for those undergoing cancer treatment.